Quickest way to change a pair of parenthesis to brackets in vim

Question

I am new to vim and in the process of discovering tons of interesting things that one can using this powerful editor.

One particular thing that I need to do very fr

Answer 1

I personally use https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround as it provides everything I could ever need, reading through the source you can see the solution is non-trivial.

A typical example:

Hello("World")

with the cursor somewhere between the (), you can type cs([ in normal mode to get:

Hello["World"]

surround.vim is easily installed with either Pathogen or Vundle, personally I prefer vundle. https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim

adding the important commented point:

cs([ adds spaces in the block, this should be cs)]